Exclusive: Josephine de Moura speaks out about “Alexandra’s Law,” named immediately after her daughter who died in a rip present

Yard Metropolis, N.Y. – A gifted Extended Island athlete received caught in a rip existing, tried using to fight it, panicked and was swept away. 

In a story you will only see on CBS2, Jennifer McLogan speaks with the college student-athlete’s mother, who is now on an emotional mission to educate other people about the hazards of rip currents. 

“My daughter did not know how to get out of a rip recent,” stated Josephine de Moura. 

Her daughter Alexandra was a star athlete at Backyard City High Faculty, a nationally recognized gymnast, and scholar chief at George Washington College, drowned in a rip current in Mexico. 

“We are struggling. It will be 3 a long time in August, and we are still so devastated. And we will be the relaxation of our life, but we are trying to uncover this means in all of this,” de Moura explained. 

She is on a mission to teach. Her daughter was just standing in waistline-superior ocean water and was sucked out to sea. 

“She was standing, speaking to friends, and the present-day just pulled her less than. She attempted to struggle this recent, and you can not fight it,” de Moura explained. 

Two times later on, Alexandra’s human body was recovered. 

De Moura is collaborating on educating young children with the American Pink Cross and Countrywide Oceanic and Atmospheric Affiliation, with courses beginning in Yard Town. 

In an instructional online video, they give the following guidelines: “You want to float. You will not want to swim back again to shore against the rip present, you want to swim out of the rip, parallel to shore along the seaside, and then stick to breaking waves back to shore at an angle.” 

De Moura’s combat bought the consideration of Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan.  

“I’m filing a invoice known as ‘Alexandra’s Law’ in honor of Alexandra’s extraordinary memory and her legacy,” Lafazan claimed. 

Other than county-vast classroom schooling, the monthly bill would have to have rip recent threat signals, and flags on seashores. 

“There desires to be conspicuous signage, conspicuous flags. Individuals need to have to be warned,” explained Lafazan.

The Global Lifesaving Federation says rip currents symbolize the important lead to of fatalities and rescues at surf shorelines around the earth. 

“My target is to unfold the training all through the total island, mainly because as you know we are surrounded by h2o,” de Moura claimed. 

Extra than 100 people a calendar year die in rip currents in this nation. 

“This is what she would want us to do, and that’s why I am undertaking it,” de Moura claimed. 

Alexandra’s Law could be ready for a vote future thirty day period. 

Teaching learners how to recognize and react to rip currents, rip tides, and undertows would all be a element of Alexandra’s Regulation.